Ok the twist is I am using iis on xp pro (home server) not apache. Click on the my server link in my sig. You should get a request times out error message from your browser. It works locally from both of my pcs, but not remotely. I thought it was a router problem, but it is not a 404 (I do not think, I have not seen the message only heard about it). I am still in my dmz and my dns from the good people at www.no-ip.com is still current becuase my ip is almost completely static. Any ideas? Networking and printers are two things that I have no patients for.

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office space
pc load letter, what the f___ does that mean?
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Are you allowing anonymous connections?
Do you have the correct default page set it the documents tab? index.html or whatever.

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Are you allowing anonymous connections?
Do you have the correct default page set it the documents tab? index.html or whatever.
[/quote] yes. What was the error message you got? I did not think that would be it because it is not a 403 error, it is a time out. I was looking at the connection time out settings and they seem to be in order. I am not sure if it is my router or iis. I am about to default the router and reinstall iis though. The default file is default.aspx that is all set. Default.asxp -> index.aspx -> default.asp -> index.asp -> default.html -> index.html is the order.

Check what IPs your web server is listening to. Perhaps you are firewalled? Perhaps your ISP firewalls you so you can't set up a web server on that IP?

I just reformated and reinstalled windows at a lan party yesterday because I was having network problems, the install before that was fresh. I think I just got a bad windows install. Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name. I also had other problems. But I bet this will fix iis since my software firewall was disabled, i was in a dmz, and all of the iis settings looked great. Ill reinstall iis tomorrow with adobe, dreamweaver, and office. Ill post back if it is fixed.

[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=22;threadid=7183;start=0#msg64962 date=1087093341]
Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name.
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This part sounds like you didn't have dns configured correctly. It most likely wouldn't require a reinstall to fix ;)

Eww, that happened to me after I installed the drivers for my ethernet card (I think).

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[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=22;threadid=7183;start=0#msg64962 date=1087093341]
Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name.
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This part sounds like you didn't have dns configured correctly. It most likely wouldn't require a reinstall to fix ;)
[/quote] well I am too lazy to run my own dns, I just use www.noip.com I don't even have a domain, its a tesing server from my box. Still have not reinstalled iis btw. I do not really even need dns, for our purposes my ip is static, it has not changed for 6 months. Comcast has a persistant ip, where the ip likes to cling to the modem, but I can manually pull a new ip if I need to.

[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=22;threadid=7183;start=0#msg65162 date=1087194674]
well I am too lazy to run my own dns, I just use www.noip.com I don't even have a domain, its a tesing server from my box. Still have not reinstalled iis btw. I do not really even need dns, for our purposes my ip is static, it has not changed for 6 months. Comcast has a persistant ip, where the ip likes to cling to the modem, but I can manually pull a new ip if I need to.
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DNS lets you type in the name of a computer instead of the IP address. Well, DNS, hosts files, lmhosts files, WINS, and many other things work together, but DNS is the most common.

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[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=22;threadid=7183;start=0#msg65162 date=1087194674]
well I am too lazy to run my own dns, I just use www.noip.com I don't even have a domain, its a tesing server from my box. Still have not reinstalled iis btw. I do not really even need dns, for our purposes my ip is static, it has not changed for 6 months. Comcast has a persistant ip, where the ip likes to cling to the modem, but I can manually pull a new ip if I need to.
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DNS lets you type in the name of a computer instead of the IP address. Well, DNS, hosts files, lmhosts files, WINS, and many other things work together, but DNS is the most common.
[/quote] I know I know, I just did not feel like running my own dns server and opening another port on my router. I use noip.com for free remote dynamic dns. But like I said I do not even need dns with a static ip... I can just use a redirect like .vze.com if I wanted to.

[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=22;threadid=7183;start=0#msg65194 date=1087226777]
I know I know, I just did not feel like running my own dns server and opening another port on my router. I use noip.com for free remote dynamic dns. But like I said I do not even need dns with a static ip... I can just use a redirect like .vze.com if I wanted to.
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If that's the case, and you chose not to use dns, I don't see why you mentioned that as a problem with your computer?

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Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name.
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[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=22;threadid=7183;start=0#msg65194 date=1087226777]
I know I know, I just did not feel like running my own dns server and opening another port on my router. I use noip.com for free remote dynamic dns. But like I said I do not even need dns with a static ip... I can just use a redirect like .vze.com if I wanted to.
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If that's the case, and you chose not to use dns, I don't see why you mentioned that as a problem with your computer?

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Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name.
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[/quote] The network was the problem. I had a whole bunch of issues with the bad install of windows. When did I say dns in particular was a problem. The server is running now on this fresh windows install. I mentioned that I am running remote dynamic dns in my first post so you guys would know that it is not a dns problem. But the server is back up and it was a windows install problem. I had a whole bunch of networking problems on that install. Also notepad did not work lol.

[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=22;threadid=7183;start=0#msg65339 date=1087276622]
The network was the problem. I had a whole bunch of issues with the bad install of windows. When did I say dns in particular was a problem. The server is running now on this fresh windows install. I mentioned that I am running remote dynamic dns in my first post so you guys would know that it is not a dns problem. But the server is back up and it was a windows install problem. I had a whole bunch of networking problems on that install. Also notepad did not work lol.
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Just saying that remote dynamic dns has nothing to do with if your computer can resolve the names of other machines. Remote dynamic dns is a dns server, resolving the names of other machines is a dns client. Or a wins client, or ...

I know that. But when remote people could not see my machine I tested the ip because the time out could have been the dns at that point, which it was not, because the timeout occured also when I used the ip.

[quote author=peofeoknight link=board=22;threadid=7183;start=0#msg65377 date=1087332089]
I know that. But when remote people could not see my machine I tested the ip because the time out could have been the dns at that point, which it was not, because the timeout occured also when I used the ip.
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It gets more muddled every time you explain it!

ugh. Its fixed now...

In a nut shell, when remote people were going to my server it would say request timed out. I knew it was not the dns, because I do not host the dns and people going to the ip got the same error. I looked in the router, that looked fine, the iis settings looked fine. I had some other networking problems and it became apparent that I had a bad xp install anyway (I had just reinstalled a few days before). So I reinstalled again and now it works, a bad install is to blame. Does that clear it up any??? :-\

just a suggestion is put a detect ip throught proxy there :) it should work, well it does for me if i use a proxy etc...

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<%
if ((Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"))="") Then
response.Write "Your Ip is " & Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")&"<br>"
Else
response.Write "You used a proxy (" &Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")&") and your Ip is "&Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR")&"<br>" End If
%>


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http://slackerz.mine.nu/example.asp
(note if you have comcast you may not be able to view w/o using a proxy)

and what does that accomplish?

showoff?

it just accomplises the fact that you can detect ip addresses through a proxy, and sorry the example is down my isp is having issues atm, i better clean up that code as it looks like sh*t anyway

showoff, I doubt that i hardly know ASP and i just noticed this by looking at the ALL_HTTP option of server varibles when i was viewing my page through a proxy and i saw that so im like kool, accually Userloser has this code more or less too but he didnt post it and i did

;) just messing with you no worries